Oh come on cpig. It has to be you who does it!.

As a brief follow up... My favs in bold.

Niels Bohr quotes

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: absurd, humour, truth, wisdom

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: paradoxes, science, truth

“There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.”
― Niels Bohr

“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: paradox, physics

“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”
― Niels Bohr, Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

tags: particles, physics, quantum, reality, science, strange

“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
― Niels Bohr

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: reality

“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think”
― Niels Bohr


“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: question-crazy

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it’s own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”
― Niels Bohr

“The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: belief, meaning

“A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: physicist-atom

“There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: truth

“The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: physics, quantum-mechanics, reality, science

“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.”
― Niels Bohr, Nuclear Physics, 1929-1952

“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
― Niels Bohr
tags: falsehood, philosophy, truth

“[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]

We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.”
― Niels Bohr